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In the US: Mondays, 9/8c, NBC
In the UK: Channel 4. Starting in October

Remember Flash Forward (maybe you had a flashback as soon as I asked that)? Brace yourself, because here’s something that at first looks quite similar but hopefully won’t prove to be so frustrating.

The Event is a complex bit of weirdness. You can’t be sure exactly what The Event is. The entire pilot episode is told in multiple flashback. You know that a regular guy (Jason Ritter – The Class, Parenthood), taking his fiancée on a cruise, ends up hijacking a plane. You know that the President of the United States (Blair Underwood – LA Law, In Treatment) is going to shut down a weird facility in Alaska that does research on what seems like people. You know he’s going to call a press conference to announce something that the CIA et al don’t want him to.

But after that and the first episode, it’s all a mystery filled with a whole load of questions. And it’s surprisingly engrossing, even if you do have the feeling that just like with FlashForward you are going to be strung along for a while – but, fingers crossed, only for a while.

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